Chapter 239: East Asian Cup Winning

In the eyes of many British media, the showdown between Manchester United and Chelsea is a showdown of special significance: a showdown between traditional conservative forces and emerging innovative forces. Many people hope that Chelsea can win, but after a thrilling game, the result shows people: No surprises, your uncle is still your uncle!

Manchester United showed its strength and stability to the world football through such a key showdown, while also re-sending itself to the top of the Premier League standings. They surpassed Arsenal with 35 points in the Premier League standings!

For this game, Ferguson believed that the result was satisfactory and Manchester United won it without a doubt. Although the team was awarded a penalty that should not have been available, the players performed very tenaciously. They overcame all kinds of adverse factors and eventually took away a valuable three-pointer from the away game.

Especially Yin Jun, who scored two goals, performed very dominantly in the game. Ferguson even took this opportunity to cheer for his disciples. He believes that with Yin Jun's fantasy performance in 2003, no player on this planet deserves the European Golden Globe Award and World Footballer than him!

Ranieri was very disappointed with the result of this game. He thought Chelsea should have scored three points at home, but the referee's red card killed the game.

Of course, the most disappointing thing is Chelsea boss Abramovich who flew from Russia to London to watch the game. After the game, the reporters photographed the face of the Russian super rich man leaving the box with an ugly look.

An insider revealed to the Sun that the Russian super rich have begun to look for new coaches, and the Blues are very likely to change their coach around Christmas.

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Yin Jun didn't know what happened after the victory of this game, because he left the team as soon as the game ended, took a flight from London Heathrow International Airport to Tokyo, Japan, on the other side of the earth.

Just four days later, the first East Asian Football Championship will start in Japan. The first opponent of the Chinese team is with the host Japan.

The East Asian Football Championship has a special competition system. The three teams in China, Japan and South Korea that participated in the 2002 World Cup finals were used as seeds and directly advanced to the final week. The other five teams need to participate in the peripheral competition to produce the fourth team in the finals.

After some competition, Xiangjiang became the fourth team to participate in the finals.

Four teams will play in a single loop over a week, with points to determine the final ranking.

The match between the Chinese and Japanese teams is the second game of this East Asian Football Championship, and the venue is Tokyo National Arena.

This is the first time that the national teams of China and Japan have truly met in three years. The last time the two teams met was the last Asian Cup eight-to-four game. At that time, the Chinese team lost 2:3 to the Japanese.

People in China hope that this game is a battle of revenge, and they have great hope for the Chinese team with Yin Jun.

However, it was the Japanese team who scored the first goal in the game.

Just 6 minutes into the game, Japan got a free kick in the frontcourt. The Chinese team intercepted the ball and did not immediately destroy it. As a result, the Japanese team counterattacked again. Their midfield core, Kato Okubo, passed the ball with a top pass, and No. 9 Kubo Ryuhiko broke into the penalty area. Although Liu Yunfei attacked and blocked the angle, he did not get the ball. Kubo Ryuhiko drifted past Liu Yunfei and pushed the ball into the empty goal successfully, helping the Japanese team to take the lead.

The Chinese team equalized the score before the end of the first half. In the 43rd minute, the Chinese team passed the ball with two passes in the backcourt to the frontcourt. Li Yi got the ball and took the ball away, passing it to Yin Jun in front of the penalty area.

After Yin Jun got the ball, he got rid of his opponent and entered the penalty area, sent the football into the Japanese team's net, and tied the score 1:1.

In the 80th minute of the game, the Japanese team intercepted the ball in the midfield and used the Chinese team to press too much to form a defensive void, and counterattacked decisively. Kubo Ryuhiko, who performed well in this game, broke through Zheng Zhi's defense area again, and Liu Yunfei, who was attacking, calmly pushed and shot from the penalty area line.

2:1, the host surpassed the score again.

However, after only 6 minutes, the Chinese team tied the score again. The Chinese team intercepted the ball in the midfield to form a fast counterattack, and Li Yi made a breakthrough on the left, but after he swung past the goalkeeper, he did not have enough shooting power, and the ball speed was too slow, so he was almost cleared by the Japanese defensive player who returned to the position. At the critical moment, Yin Jun was like a magic weapon falling from the sky, stabbing the ball into the Japanese team's ball net with one kick.

In the end, the Chinese team tied the host Japan team 2:2 in the first game. In another game, the South Korean team defeated Xiangjiang team 3:1.

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Three days later, the Chinese team moved to Saitama to face the second opponent of the Korean team in this game.

This was an extremely chaotic game. The South Korean team did everything they could on the court, but they were still suppressed by the Chinese team with Yin Jun. If it weren't for the Chinese team's ability to seize opportunities was really difficult to compliment, the Chinese team would have already led the score.

The mentality of many players was a little unbalanced when the Chinese forward Li Yi pressed his opponent once, and his opponent was angry and slapped Li Yi in the head with his fist, causing a melee between the players on the field and the scene was once out of control.

After some chaos, the Korean player who hit Li Yi with his fist was sent off the court with a red card, which made the game more and more tilted towards the Chinese side.

In the end, Yin Jun scored a hat trick in this game. Although the Korean team strongly won the game, they finally lost 1:3.

At this time of the event, the situation was already obvious: the championship was basically locked by the Chinese team, because their last opponent, China Xiangjiang, would be difficult to stop the Chinese team from winning.

The South Korean team and the Japanese team have to fight in the last game. Unless the Japanese team defeats the South Korean team, they can defeat the Chinese team and win the championship of this event.

In fact, there was no surprise in the last round of the game. The Chinese team swept the Chinese Xiangjiang team with a huge gap of 5:1 in Yokohama, thus defeating the host Japan team with an unbeaten record of 2 wins and 1 draw, winning the championship of the first East Asian Football Championship.

This is also the first more substantial champion of the Chinese men's national team in the official competition.

Yin Jun showed a level above Asian players in this event. Although he has always been the target of the opponent's focus, he still scored 7 goals and won the Golden Boot of the Tournament with an absolute advantage. At the same time, he also gave 1 assist and was undoubtedly the most valuable player of this event.

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Speaking of Chinese men's football team, there have been many years of team building, but the results are really not good. Apart from winning the championship at the Far East Games during the Republic of China, we have not won any international championship since the founding of New China. The only thing worthy of praise is that we won the runner-up of the Asian Cup once.

This time, under the leadership of Yin Jun, the Chinese team finally won the first international championship.

No matter what, the East Asian Cup matches were also abroad.

The national team returned home with great enthusiasm and prepared to accept the applause and cheers from the fans. Yin Jun originally did not want to return home with the national team, because four days later, he would participate in this year's Toyota Cup with Manchester United, who was about to arrive in Japan.

However, Yin Jun could not resist the repeated persuasion of the team leader and head coach Ali Han, and still set foot on the special plane to return to China.

The Football Association is very grand in the history of the national team. It specially booked a plane for the team and returned to China on the heroes.

At this critical moment, if Yin Jun, the biggest hero who won the championship, is not present, it will make the subsequent celebrations lose their color and even cause dissatisfaction among many fans.

After receiving a warm welcome from the fans at the Capital Airport, the Football Association also held a very grand celebration banquet for the national team, invited many famous seniors from the football industry, as well as some performing arts and business figures, and even started a program like walking the red carpet, which looked similar to the FIFA awards ceremony, which made Yin Jun speechless.

But the leaders were happy, and he could only hold on to his thoughts.

Yin Jun, following head coach Ali Han and the leaders of the Football Association, naturally received more attention than ordinary players.

In fact, everyone is so enthusiastic about Yin Jun, to some extent, even more attention is paid to head coach Ali Han and the leaders of the Football Association. The main reason is that he has achieved great success in playing football abroad and has become a representative figure in Chinese football.

However, while Yin Jun was smiling and dealing with everyone, he finally met a guy who was not very harmonious.

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A young reporter from a TV station in Xiangjiang held a microphone and followed the photographer to Yin Jun, and then asked: "Mr. Yin, can you clarify a question? What is your current nationality?"

Yin Jun didn't even look at him, and ignored him directly, making the man look embarrassed. The few people next to him also glared at the guy, obviously complaining that this guy came to disrupt the situation.

But beyond everyone's expectations, the young man actually followed him and asked Yin Jun the same question loudly: "Mr. Yin, can you clarify a question, what is your current nationality?"

This time his voice was even louder, and dozens of people around him heard it clearly, so they all whispered around, wanting to see where the development of the situation would go?

Of course, Yin Jun could not ignore it, otherwise it would be a very serious national emotional problem. So he stopped, stared at the guy, and then slowly said, "I love my motherland."

In theory, Yin Jun’s answer was equivalent to explaining the problem. He would not change his nationality. But the annoying guy continued to ask sharply: “Mr. Yin, does your motherland refer to China, Britain, or other countries? This is an inaccurate term and cannot answer my question.”

Yin Jun hated this guy very much at this time. Generally speaking, no one would ask a superstar in such a public place because this kind of question is very sensitive. But it is naturally a bit embarrassing to be asked in public at this time. Who knows that answering this question will cause some unnecessary disputes in other aspects?

Everyone around looked at Yin Jun quietly. Even the leaders of the Football Association stopped and looked at Yin Jun with a little unclear attitude. It was obvious that they also had some of their own considerations in their hearts.

Yin Jun stared at the guy, frowned for a while, and then sarcastically said in a ridiculous tone: "This reporter is so strange. How could he ask me such a simple question? The motherland is naturally the country where the ancestors are. You have to ask me which country this motherland refers to? Did you forget all your ancestors completely?!"

As soon as these words came out, everyone in the audience applauded and applauded. They also expressed great agreement with Yin Jun's answer, and looked contempt for the reporter who had come out of nowhere.

Of course, the reporter was not feeling well. He originally wanted to fight Yin Jun, but he didn't expect that Yin Jun kicked the ball back openly. Instead, he looked like he was forgetting his ancestors. It was so embarrassing that he couldn't help but run away in shame.

Even the leaders of the Football Association could not help but come over and praise him: "Okay, the explanation of this country where our ancestors are is indeed quite incisive. That guy has bad intentions and is also asking for trouble."

Yin Jun shook his head and said, "I don't know where I came in. I'm looking for trouble if I have nothing to do. I'm not a serious media reporter at first glance."

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Soon, the celebration banquet was about to begin. The leaders of the Football Association sent someone to call Yin Jun.

The hall is really big enough. I passed by more than a dozen tables along the way. Everyone was gathering together to discuss various issues. Some young men and women gathered together to laugh.

When Yin Jun passed by a table, the waiter was about to walk through with a plate with a wineglass. When he saw them passing by, he naturally stopped and asked them to go there first, but he was not careful that someone would pass by behind him and bumped into him.

The waiter's plate suddenly turned back and turned over. Only the woman's screams and the sound of the glass falling to the ground and breaking. When the young waiter turned his head and looked back, he was somewhat scared to find that the clothes of a young girl in a light purple evening dress were all dyed with red wine.

What's even more fatal is that some clothes are easily stuck to their bodies after being dipped in wine, which makes them feel a little embarrassed. Moreover, the light purple clothes have formed very ugly dark spots after being soaked in red wine. It can be said that the noble image of tonight was completely ruined.
Chapter completed!